To keep Congress out of power in Meghalaya, Assam Finance, Health and Education Minister and Northeast Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convenor Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with regional parties will form the next government in the state.

"I am confident that the regional parties and the BJP will form the government in Meghalaya together. The people in Meghalaya have rejected the Congress. We are committed to giving them an alternate form of government and we are moving in that direction only," Sarma told ANI.

He said 'at 5 pm we are going to meet the Governor with 29 members, that number will definitely go up'.

The MLAs of National People's Party on Sunday attended a meeting to discuss the formation of the government in the state.

Speaking to the media, NPP president Conrad K Sangma confirmed that in a few hours the entire picture regarding the upcoming government in the state will be clear.

He even added that they have spoken to like-minded parties.

"We'll take a decision in the meeting, have spoken to like-minded parties, they are also having their meetings, the picture will be clear in an hour or two," Sangma said.

Donkupar Roy, president of United Democratic Party said, "As a party we meet and discussed formation of govt. We all decided we should form a non-Congress govt, and we have decided that NPP government should be formed led by Conrad Sangma as the CM."  -- ANI